Doncaster Rovers vs Walsall Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Doncaster Rovers

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Doncaster Rovers will be hoping for a better result after the 2-0 League Two defeat in their last game at the hands of AFC Wimbledon.

It’s not been often in recent times that Doncaster Rovers have kept a clean sheet. It will be a concern for them that Doncaster Rovers have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 8 goals on the way.

Coming into this clash, Doncaster Rovers haven't beaten Walsall in their previous 2 matches in the league.

Walsall

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After a losing effort in their last game against Harrogate Town in League Two action, Walsall will be aiming to make amends here.

George Thomson (84') scored for Harrogate Town.

Walsall have been effective going forward in the lead-up to this encounter, scoring 10 goals in their previous 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that Walsall have had their own issues at the back, also conceding in 6 of those same outings. That kind of pattern isn’t assured to follow through into this game, though.

Heading into this fixture, Walsall have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Inspecting their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 13/02/2018 shows that Doncaster Rovers have won 2 of them and Walsall 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined sum of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 10 of them from The Rovers and 10 netted by The Saddlers. The average goals per game has been 3.33.

📰 Team News: Doncaster Rovers

The Doncaster Rovers manager Grant McCann does not have any fitness worries to speak of before this game owing to a fully healthy squad available to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Walsall

Owing to a completely injury-free group ready to go, the Walsall manager Mat Sadler has no fitness concerns to speak of coming into this game.

💭 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Walsall certainly have the ability to find the back of the net against this Doncaster Rovers outfit, but it may not quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We think that it’s going to be a close game with a 2-1 winning score for Doncaster Rovers at the end of the 90 minutes. Expecting it to be very competitive.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 21:05 14/11/2023